Welcome to SOLT FIAT
The Family of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT) is a congregation of priests, sisters, and lay apostles, including married deacons. All the members share a common spirituality, mission and vision, as they strive to imitate and live the life of Christ. Each vocation finds its identity as source in the Most Holy Trinity, and in their distinctiveness, they complement one another in the Charism which is the Ecclesial Teams.
Fr. James H. Flanagan, an Irish-American, is the founder of SOLT. His inner desire to follow Christ more intimately after the example of the Blessed Virgin Mary in relationship with the Trinity impelled him to do so.
After his ordination to priesthood on January 10, 1952, he sought permission from Cardinal Richard Cushing of the Archdiocese of Boston, Masachusetts. He was advised to work first in the pastoral ministry of the Archdiocese where he begun to know and have regular meetings with a group of parishioners searching for a deeper spirituality. Then, they visited Archbishop Edwin Byrne of Santa Fe, New Mexico who assigned them to work in the Indian reservation in Pena Blanca, New Mexico. Fr. Flanagan was requested from the Archdiocese of Boston to assume the spiritual direction of the group. On December 8, 1957, was assigned to work in the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish at Holman, New Mexico, in the Mora Valley with Fr. John McHugh.
On July 16, 1958, Archbishop Byrne established the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity as a Pious Society in his Archdiocese and guided the Society's progress until his death in 1982. In 1984, upon the invitation of the Most Rev. Charles Helmsing, the Society moved to Kansas City wherein various specialized ministries in other parts of the United States began to open up. Then the Society also began to expand and serve in different parts of the world, i.e., Central America, like Belize, Guatemala and Haiti, the Caribbean and England. At present, the society also serves in Russia, Italy and other Spanish-speaking countries.
In February 3. 1975, Fr. Thomas Gier, SOLT arrived in the Philippines to start the SOLT mission in the country upon the invitation of the late Bishop Teotimo Pacis of the Diocese of Legazpi. The man who was to become the first SOLT missionary in the Philippine with his lay companions, was given the Cagraray Island, the cradle of the SOLT mission in Asia.
Help us during this Year for Priests to live good lives by being close to him and his example. Grant that we may learn from the saintly Curé of Ars how to rest contentedly before the Holy Eucharist; to know that only your Word enlightens us each day; to know how tender is the love with which you welcome repentant sinners; how consoling is the confident abandonment to the care of the Holy and Immaculate Mother; how necessary is the ever-vigilant battle against Evil.
"Word and silence: learning to communicate is learning to listen and contemplate as well as speak. This is especially important for those engaged in the task of evangelisation: both silence and word are essential elements, integral to the Church's work of communication for the sake of a renewed proclamation of Christ in today's world".
'This is a good rule of conduct, to do nothing but what we can offer to the good God. Now, we cannot offer to Him slanders, calumnies, injustice, anger, blasphemy, impurity, night clubs, dancing; yet that is all that people do in the world. Speaking of dances, St. Francis of Sales used to say that "they were like mushrooms, the best were good for nothing." Mothers are apt to say indeed, "Oh, I watch over my daughters." They watch over their attire, but they cannot watch over their hearts. . . Ah, if they well understood this responsibility they would never have any dances. Just like those who make bad pictures and statues, or write bad books, they will have to answer for all the harm that these things will do during all the time they last.'
Homily of Fr. Tito Ayo, SOLT/ 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Prayer of Jesus at the Last Supper
